Academic Radiology
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 24-39 , January 2008

Automatic and Rapid Identification of Infarct Slices and Hemisphere in DWI Scans

Received 11 April 2007 ,Accepted 21 July 2007.

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1 This research was funded by the Biomedical Research Council; Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore. We thank ETPL ASTAR for funding the patent filed related to this work.

PII: S1076-6332(07)00452-7

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.07.024

Academic Radiology
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 24-39 , January 2008